is a Denver nonprofit that works with children undergoing cancer treatment, providing both financial and emotional support to them and their families. The Cap in its name refers not only to the nonprofit's focal character, Marvel’s Captain America, but also serves as an acronym for who its members are: Cosplayers Against Pediatric cancer.In 2015, Nathan Morimitsu met Sterling Bailey at what was still being called.
It was later in that same year that Bailey had the idea to start a charity for kids battling cancer, and called on Morimitsu to help assemble the team. “He’d already been doing hospital visits and talking with patients and their families, and found that there weren’t enough charities just helping people get their bills paid.”
There were already charities to help with medical expenses or to send a sick child to Disneyland. And there were a lot of nerd-themed cosplay groups who did the rounds at local hospitals, buoying the spirits of the kids, inspiring them to keep fighting the good fight. “All of which is great,” Morimitsu says. “But we felt like we could do something more.”
To date, that something more has resulted in raising over $350K, all of which has been distributed to families not only in Colorado, but all over the country. For example, in 2019 Cap for Kids helped a Denver-area family whose only option was to take their seriously ill child for life-saving treatments using a city bus. This was just before the pandemic hit, when it became evident to the world that if you’re sick, mass transit is not your best option.
Nonetheless, the nonprofit is throwing a party to celebrate, one of the last big events to take place at the